IATA, A4A deliver aviation economic importance message

IATA and the Airlines for America (A4A) trade associations have joined forces to promote the economic benefits that airlines and the air transportation industry bring to the US, and to try and counter a feared surge of new taxes and regulations as legislators work to reduce budget deficits.

IATA and the Airlines for America (A4A) trade associations have joined forces to promote the economic benefits that airlines and the air transportation industry bring to the US, and to try and counter a feared surge of new taxes and regulations as legislators work to reduce budget deficits.
At a joint presentation with A4A at its US headquarters in Washington DC Thursday, IATA released a new study it commissioned from Oxford Economics that sums up the key economic facts and figures ...

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